Amethi: Taking up the fight for mega food park in his Lok Sabha constituency Amethi, Rahul Gandhi today marched through the dusty pathways to reach the site proposed for the unit and alleged that the project was cancelled by the Centre because of “politics of revenge”.
The Congress Vice President said scrapping of the project had “seriously hit” the farmers and that he had come here to expose the “bluff” of the Centre which has maintained that the responsibility for its cancellation lay with the promoter company and the previous UPA government.
“Land had been allotted. Work was very much underway,” said the 44-year-old Gandhi as he walked some two kilometers on dusty tracks to reach the site that had been identified for the proposed food park.
“BJP wants to hurt me through this politics of revenge.
But in reality, the farmers are getting affected, not me. BJP is playing such politics in other states as well, like Punjab, Telangana, Maharashtra and Haryana, wherever farmers can be suppressed,” Gandhi said amidst loud cheers from the gathered farmers.
He said the food park would have benefitted farmers of 10 districts as they could directly send their produce to the processing units.
Addressing a gathering of farmers in Mirzagarh village, Gandhi asserted that “we will not be cowed down and would pressure the government to get it (food park project) back”.
At a ‘kisan panchayat’ in Shankargarh area, he said Prime Minister Narendra Modi “never went to the house of any farmer.
He does not know the pain of the farmers.”?
He alleged that “food park project has been snatched from us as per a well-planned conspiracy”.
He also visited some farms on his way where crops were damaged by untimely rains and hailstorms.
“Our government is neither in the state nor in Centre but we (Congress) shall do all the best in the interest of public,” the Congress leader said. .
PTI
